quote:Any young girl who is the victim of incest or rape will carry that scar for the rest of her life. Should society add an additional scar to her burden -- by telling her she should kill the baby?
First, I apologize for trying to answer Bill with reason. It is an exercise in futility, as it means nothing to him.
Bill,
Society does not tell anyone to have an abortion. Society does, and should, tell women that, if it is what they consider the right thing to do, they CAN have an abortion.
The 12 year old girl in question did not ask to become pregnant. Many, or most, people are convinced that a pregnancy in the early stages is only privileged to proceed to term at the discretion of the woman carrying the fetus.
Women do, or at least should, have control over their reproductive function, to a point. The legal, and common sense, point is that at which the fetus is naturally viable outside the womb.
Bill, neither you or I are women. For us to abrogate the reproductive rights of women is entirely wrong, ethically and morally. Not religiously, but that has become irrelevant.
You know very well that if men could have abortions, we could get one at the barber shop.
DF